Here’s a rundown of the Tigers shelling Jose Quintana for six runs on three homers to mar the White Sox's Opening Day redo with a 6-3 defeat.

How the game turned

1. Tim Anderson booting a hot grounder from Justin Upton to lead off the second didn’t make Quintana give up a pair of bombs, but that would be a reasonable starting point for the story. After following that up by grazing Tigers right fielder Mikie Mahtook to put runners on first and second with no one out, Quintana’s already shaky command abandoned him entirely, as he squandered an 0-2 count by hanging a curveball that Jacoby Jones golfed out to left for his first career home run. He later took Nicholas Castellanos 0-2 before missing three times in a row, at which point the Tigers third baseman drilled a full-count fastball for a no-doubt, two-run homer to right. As far as all-encompassing decisive stretches go, this was pretty complete

2. If Monday’s rainout was an attempt mess up...

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